When I do philosophy — like I’m doing now — I feel it is entertainment, but I hope it resembles listening to someone play beautiful music. I am not b… - Alan Watts
" "When I do philosophy — like I’m doing now — I feel it is entertainment, but I hope it resembles listening to someone play beautiful music. I am not being serious, but I am being sincere. The difference between seriousness and sincerity is that seriousness is someone speaking in the context of the possibility of tragedy.
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About Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion.
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